Dark Brandon is trashing Republicans at his campaign fundraisers across the country. Biden’s poll numbers are horrendous and the classic move for nervous candidates is to demonize challengers. That is what President Unity is doing against MAGA Republicans and Trump.

Biden is painting MAGA Republicans and Trump as a threat to democracy, which Biden has been doing since 2019, to be fair. But it is unusual for an incumbent president running for re-election is going so hard this far out from the 2024 presidential election. The primaries don’t start until January 15, 2024 for the Republican Iowa caucus. The first Democrat primary is February 3 in South Carolina. Democrats have known long enough that Biden is in trouble that they switched up their primary calendar so that South Carolina goes first for them. The DNC hopes that Biden has a strong showing of support in South Carolina (thanks to Rep. Jim Clyburn) and this helps him in the general election. We’ll see.

Let the demonizing continue from the man who promised to unite America in 2019. Biden went to Arizona on Thursday to tout a library to be built to honor John McCain (with American Rescue Act funds). He held fundraisers, too, but there was no trip to the border to see the effects of the humanitarian and national security crises he intentionally created.

During a speech in Arizona celebrating a library to be built honoring his friend and fierce Trump critic, the late Republican Sen. John McCain, Biden repeated one of his key campaign themes, branding the “Make America Great Again” movement as an existential threat to the U.S. political system. He’s reviving that idea ahead of next year’s presidential race after it buoyed Democrats during last fall’s midterm election, laying out the threat in especially stark terms: “There’s something dangerous happening in America right now.”

“We should all remember, democracies don’t have to die at the end of a rifle,” Biden said. “They can die when people are silent, when they fail to stand up or condemn threats to democracy, when people are willing to give away that which is most precious to them because they feel frustrated, disillusioned, tired, alienated.”

Who is silent? Biden and Democrats have been wildly aggressive against Republicans and conservatives since before Trump was inaugurated in 2016. Democrats announced their intention to impeach him before he was even inaugurated. Ever since January 6, 2021, Democrats have dined out on the opportunity it gave them to paint Republicans as the destroyers of democracy. Democrats won elections in 2022, when the red wave was supposed to happen, against Trump-endorsed candidates. The mantra is that Republicans, particularly MAGA Republicans, are destroying democracy. They never actually say how that is happening but there are usually tales of voter suppression in red states that passed election integrity laws and look for abortion to be a major issue in 2024.

The party that wants to pack the Supreme Court, eliminate the Electoral College, and allow non-citizens to vote claim Republicans want to destroy democracy. You can’t make this stuff up.

So, Biden is going to focus on “democracy.”

“Our task, our sacred task of our time, is to make sure that they change not for the worst but for the better, that democracy survives and thrives, not be smashed by a movement more interested in power than a principle,” Biden said Thursday. “It’s up to us, the American people.”

Like previous speeches the latest location was chosen for effect. It was near Arizona State University, which houses the McCain Institute, named after the late senator, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee who spent his public life denouncing autocrats around the globe.

Biden said that “there is no question that today’s Republican Party is driven and intimidated by MAGA extremists.” He pointed to Trump’s recent suggestion that Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who is stepping down from his post on Friday, should be executed for allegedly treasonous betrayal of him.

“Although I don’t believe even a majority of Republicans think that, the silence is deafening,” Biden added. He also noted that Trump has previously questioned those who serve in the U.S. military calling “service members suckers and losers. Was John a sucker?” Biden asked, referring to McCain, who survived long imprisonment in Vietnam.

Biden slamming MAGA for desiring power is rich. Who is more obsessed with power than an 80-year-old lifelong politician who is in the throes of dementia yet insists on running for a second term as president?

As he always does, Biden made the talk about the McCain library all about him. It’s always about Joe. He brought up his deceased son, Beau.

Then he got even more personal adding, “Was my son, Beau – who lived next to a burn pit for a year and came home and died – was he a sucker for volunteering to serve his country?”

Cindy McCain offered her thanks to Biden for introducing her to the late senator. I didn’t realize the Bidens introduced her to John McCain.

“I am so grateful for that,” Cindy McCain said, her voice cracking.

Later Thursday, the Treasury Department announced $83 million in federal funds to help construct the 83,000-square-foot library near Papago Park.

Another Biden versus Trump battle is going to be a no-holds-barred contest. Do you think either man will agree to debates?

These are actual quotes from the MAGA movement:

“I am your retribution.” “Slitting throats" of civil servants. “We must destroy the FBI.”

Did you ever think you’d hear leaders of a political party in the United States of America speak like that?

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) September 29, 2023

Pretty similar, yeah. pic.twitter.com/jHHIriUcf2

— Kurt Schemers (@KurtSchemers) September 29, 2023